Enclosure 3A - Project Summary Form
NATIONAL FIRE PLAN COMMUNITY ASSISTANCE AND WILDLAND URBAN INTERFACE PROJECTS
Application for Wildland Urban Interface Fuels / Education and
Prevention / Community Planning for Fire Protection Projects
Applicant
Applicant/Organization:
Lomakatsi Restoration Project (LRP)
Phone:
(541) 488-0208
FAX:
Email:
lomakatsi@hotmail.com
(541) 488-4909
Address (Street or P. O. Box, City, State, Zip): PO Box 3084, Ashland, OR 97520
Project Coordinator
Project Coordinator (Name and Title): Oshana Catranides, Executive Director
Oshana Catranides, Executive Director
Organization/Jurisdiction:
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Phone:
FAX:
Email:
(541) 488-0208
(541) 488-4909
oshanac@hotmail.com
Project Information
Project Title:
Siskiyou Mountain Park Fuels Reduction Project
Proposed Project Start Date:
December 2003
Proposed Project End Date:
November 2004
Federal Funding Request:
Total Project Funding:
$ 219,455.00
$ 234,755.00
Are you submitting multiple projects? If so, please explain and prioritize: (1)Colestin Road Fuels Reduction Project, phase II; (2) West
Fork Williams Creek Community Fire Hazard Reduction Project; (3) Siskiyou Mountain Park Fuels Reduction Project; (4) Anderson
Creek Road Fuels Reduction Project; (5) Illinois Valley Fuels Reduction Partnership Project
Brief Project Description:
Lomakatsi will work with Ashland Parks and Recreation Dept., Ashland Fire & Rescue, and
community volunteers to implement a comprehensive fuels reduction project along foot, horse and
bike trails in the 270 acre Siskiyou Mountain Park, on the western edge of the WUI of Ashland
Oregon. The project creates fuel break vantage points, removes dense brush from along trails, and
reduces understory vegetation which is both a fire hazard and an ecological challenge to the health
and fire resiliency of the original pine-oak woodlands ecosystem. The project will create a much
needed passage through this virtually ‘roadless’ park, in order to increase the continuity and
effectiveness of fire suppression activities that would be needed to protect both the community of
Ashland, the Ashland Municipal Watershed, and natural resources on adjacent federal lands. The
Quartz Fire crept to within 5 miles west of the Ashland watershed, which is adjacent to this proposed
project area. The project enhances the creation of a fuels reduction “buffer” along recreational trails
and forested areas in the uplands of the Ashland WUI, adjacent to Rogue River National Forest.
Project Location (latitude/longitude if applicable):
County:
Congressional District:
Ashland, Oregon W.U.I.
Jackson
52nd
Project Type: Check appropriate project type. More than one type may be checked. If only Box (4) is checked, use Enclosure 4.
(1)
(2)
X Wildland Urban Interface Fuels Project
Wildland Urban Interface Education and Prevention Project
(3)
(4)
Community Planning for Fire Protection Project
Fuels Utilization and Marketing Project
If the applicant is an unincorporated area, define the geographic area being represented:
Enclosure 3B (Page 1 of 3) - Project Narrative Description
Applications for funding must include a narrative response that describes the proposal. Please do not submit responses longer than one page, single
space, 12-pitch font.
Describe project including, but not limited to:
 project location
Address these
 project implementation
items as
 anticipated outcomes
applicable:
 measures and reporting
 interagency partners
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project relationship to community or natural landscape fire plans
project time frames and income
specify types of activities and equipment used
amount or extent of actions (acres, number of homes, etc)
environmental, cultural and historical resource requirement
Response:
Project is located within the 270 acre Siskiyou Mountain Park, on the southwestern edge of the
wildland urban interface of Ashland, Oregon. Ashland Parks and Recreation Department (APRD) and Ashland
Fire & Rescue personnel (AF&R) have worked with Lomakatsi Restoration Project (LRP) to delineate the
project location as a critical zone for reducing fuels to create fire-defensible vantage points for protection of
the city, the park, and surrounding forests. The park contains an extensive network of hiking/biking/horse
trails which pass through extremely dense thickets of brushy fuel, where in some places the trails are like
tunnels through 12 foot tall manzanita (see photos). The trails link the park to adjacent Rogue River National
Forest, and to other trails which traverse ridges and forests and brush fields to connect hikers, bikers, and
horseback riders from the southwestern to the northwestern ends of town (please see attached map).
Project implementation/Extent of Actions will be strategically planned with APRD and AF&R to reduce fuels
along numerous foot / bike /horse trails (50 acres), and on approximately another 50 acres of forest and brush
land within the park. This will expand the benefits of work done in previously thinned park areas, creating
strategic vegetative ‘fuel breaks’. Lomakatsi will employ a local workforce and will draw employees from the
pool of trained interns who participated in its “Fuels Reduction Workforce Training Programs’, funded by the
National Fire Plan during 2002 and 2003.
Outcomes: The project is designed to create connectivity between fuels reduction areas in the park and the fire
fighting vantage points in the WUI currently identified by Ashland Fire & Rescue. The project significantly
reduces hazardous fuel loading within the park and along frequented trails, making it safer from fire for people
and wildlife, while opening-up and beautifying the park’s diverse and forested landscape. Thinning will
include a focus on releasing native pines from brushy undergrowth, and creating thinned mosaics around
stands of oak trees, enhancing forest health and fire resiliency. Project will be designed to improve firefighting
accessibility, reduce fire intensity, to enhance park trails for firefighting access and egress, and for the safety
and protection of hikers, residents, wildlife, and natural resources.
Measures and reporting - Lomakatsi and Parks & Rec. will document fuels treatments to be included in area
fuels reduction project mapping, planning, and firefighting strategies being coordinated by AF&R and ODF.
Other measures and reporting will be concurrent with requirements of funding agency.
Interagency Partners include City of Ashland Fire & Rescue, Ashland Parks and Recreation Department,
Rogue River National Forest, Oregon Department of Forestry, Ashland Wilderness Charter School.
Fire Plans: The project is directly related to the fuels reduction planning and implementation work being
coordinated by the AF&R and Oregon Department of Forestry through previous National Fire Plan grants for
the City’s defensible space cost share/rebate program. Parks and Rec has begun fuel mitigation on this site,
and has worked with LRP in the past to implement volunteer-based projects which support fuels reduction and
draw dozens of volunteers from the area’s pro-active community, one which well known for it’s intrinsic
involvement in area forest land management, as evidenced by the Ashland Watershed Protection Project.
Project time frame is approximately one year. Project will include approximately $10,000 in matching funds
from the city of Ashland Parks and Rec. for fuels reduction in this park. Project will be conducted seasonally
as weather, fire restrictions, and NEPA requirements allow.
Acitivities include thinning and brushing, piling and swamper burning of debris, some chipping.
Equipment will include chainsaws, pole-chain saws, loppers, drip torches, fire tools, chipper.
Extent of Actions: Project will affect 100 acres.
Compliances: Project will comply with regulatory requirements - NEPA, SHIPO, others if needed.
Enclosure 3B (Page 2 of 3) - Project Evaluation Criteria
Applications for funding must include narrative responses that address the following four criteria. Within each criterion, subcriteria are listed in descending order of importance. Limit your responses to the areas provided.
1. Reducing Fire Risk. (40 points))
A. Describe how the proposal promotes reduction of risk in high hazard areas or communities, or natural landscapes.
B. Describe how the proposed project benefits resources on federal land or adjacent non-federal land, or how it protects the safety
of communities.
C. To what extent does the project implement or create a cooperative (1) fuels treatment plan or (2) community fire strategy
(include evidence of the plan if it already exists)?
D. Explain to what extent the affected community or proponent has been involved or plans to involve the affected community in a
qualified fuels education program (e.g., FIREWISE).
E. Explain how the proposal (1) leads to, enhances or restores a local fire-adapted ecosystem, and/or (2) mitigates or leads to the
mitigation of hazardous fuel conditions.
F. How will the proposed treatments or programs be maintained in future years?
Response: A)
Project will reduce fuels along hiking/biking/horse trails in Siskiyou Mountain Park, reducing
wildfire hazard by removing densely overgrown and highly flammable brush in close proximity to trails.
Areas of the park are ‘remote’, in that there is no roaded fire-fighting access. The Bear Watershed Analysis
(Ashland Ranger District, 1995) classified both fire hazard and risk as uniformly extreme throughout the
Ashland WUI. B) Project will allow trails to be used as fire fighting routes, increasing community and
resource protection by connecting firefighting vantage points on park lands to strategic mitigation areas
indicated by AF&R. Fuels reduction decreases potential spread of wildfire from town onto adjacent Rogue
River National Forest, or conversely from the forests towards the town (Quartz Fire). C) This proposal
increases the effectiveness of the AF&D interface fire plan, which is using ODF rebates, in part, to provide
funding to reduce fuels on private lands in the WUI. Community support has been evidenced through a series
of volunteer-based fuels reduction work-days in the park, supported by local residents, the Parks Dept, Scout
Clubs, Ashland School District, and Lomakatsi. D) LRP is community based non-profit organization which
consistently provides outreach and educational programs to support citizen involvement in pro-active fuels
reduction principles and practices. Lomakatsi has networked with the Parks Dept, AF&R, and RRNF to
create strategies for implementing cross-community fuels reduction programs to reduce interface wildfire
hazards. E) Forests benefit from a significant reduction in understory fuels, which enhances the health and
fire resiliency of the local fire-adapted pine-oak woodland ecosystem. F) Treatments will be maintained by
Parks and Recreation Dept., and with volunteer work days, as in the past.
2. Increasing local capacity. (30 points)
A. How would the proposal improve or lead to the improvement of the local economy in terms of jobs and sustainable economic
activity? How many jobs are expected to be created or retained and for how long (please distinguish between essentially yearround and seasonal jobs)? How will this proposal link to other projects (or proposed projects) to create year-round jobs?
B. To what extent will this project be offered to serve as a model for other communities or natural landscapes?
C. Will biomass or forest fuels be utilized; if so, in what manner and how much?
Response: A) The proposal
will create approximately 8 local jobs during a one-year period. Lomakatsi has
trained a diverse and competent workforce, for whom we seek private and federal restoration contracts to
provide year-round employment. Lomakatsi is also involved in other grant funded projects which create yearround work through programs such as OWEB, USFWS Jobs-in-the-Woods, etc. LRP also develops private
foundation grants through groups such as the Alliance of Forest Workers and Harvesters, the Norman
Foundation, Tides Foundation etc. This project will link Lomakatsi’s workforce to other projects focused on
fuels mitigation in the Ashland watershed, including the Ashland Watershed Protection Project, and the
AF&R/ODF defensible-space rebate program. B) Lomakatsi bases its work on its “Ecological Principles for
Fuel Load Reduction and Restoration”, an available guideline for landowners and communities to use as a
model to outline and design fuels reduction strategies and programs (attached). These model guidelines have
been posted on various websites, including Sustainable Northwest. C) The manner and amount of utilization
of biomass or forest fuels from this project will be a decision made by the City of Ashland Parks and
Recreation Department. They have a small chipper for use in remote areas where biomass removal is
hindered by a lack of roads. Jackson County Fuels Committee may also be involved in removing some
downed trees to distribute through their free firewood to needy families program.
Enclosure 3B (Page 3 of 3) - Project Evaluation Criteria
3. Increasing interagency and intergovernmental coordination. (15 Points)
A. Describe how this project implements a local intergovernmental strategy or plan, or creates such a plan. Describe the plan if it
already exists.
B. Explain the level of cooperation, coordination or strategic planning through a “Local Coordination Group” for wildland fire
activities, or among federal, state, tribal, local government and community organizations. List the cooperators (a detailed list
of cooperators will be required for projects that are funded).
Response: A) This
project works with city governments and community groups to implement fuels reduction
strategies that enhance and connect the wildfire mitigation work of Ashland Fire & Rescue and the Ashland
Parks and Recreation Department. Though National Fire Plan funds have been received by the City of
Ashland (thru ODF), the funds are not dedicated to treating this heavily fueled, high-use park, which lies just
outside of the Ashland Urban Growth Boundary / City Limits. Through this project, Lomakatsi is assisting in
the creation of a new joint strategy which allows LRP to be the pro-active on-the-ground intermediary in
linking the fuels reduction goals between these intergovernmental organizations. The project also enhances
the fuels mitigation work being done in the Rogue River National Forest, creating a larger and more effective
fire-fighting buffer around the city and adjacent federal lands, protecting Ashland’s Municipal Watershed.
Areas treated will be added to existing fire mitigation mapping and planning projects coordinated by AF&R.
B) There is no ‘official’ Local Coordination Group in this area, but Lomakatsi’s history and notoriety in the
region makes it capable of working and coordinating many projects with federal, state, local and community
organizations. In developing this proposal, LRP has conducted on-site strategy tours with AF&R and Parks
and Rec. Dept. Lomakatsi has worked with interns form the Ashland High School Wilderness Charter School
over the past eight years, and will involve them, as well as interns from the Environmental Studies Program at
Southern Oregon University in the parks project. Due to the absence of a local tribal council, LRP invites
consultants from area tribes to contribute information and education about historic fire usage and the
indigenous perspectives of historic fire ecology in the area.
4. Expanding Community Participation. (15 Points)
A. To what extent have interested individuals, groups, and communities been provided an opportunity to become informed and
involved in this proposal?
B. Describe the extent of local support or opposition for the project, including any cost-sharing arrangements.
C. What are the environmental, social and educational benefits or concerns of the project?
Response: A) This
proposal is the result of the positive influence that Lomakatsi’s fuels reduction and
educational outreach programs have had in southwestern Oregon communities. Outreach for community
involvement has especially benefited from previous NFP projects, publicity, and media coverage, making
Lomakatsi a well known and easily accessible community organization, with ever-increasing opportunities
for community involvement. Community work-days will be publicized to increase involvement in the project.
B)Local support for this project is very strong as the drought continues in southwestern Oregon, and as
memories of the recent summers-of-fire are returning with the dry, ominous springtime…Lomakatsi’s
ecological approach to fuels reduction has created strong support and common ground between community
members, environmental groups, federal land management agencies, city governments and landowners who
can all work together with clear strategies based on wildfire risk reduction, the restoration of ecosystem
function, and the return of more fire resilient forests and woodlands.
C) “The Ashland interface is an area at considerable risk of destruction from, and contribution to, large scale,
high severity, catastrophic wildfire”(Ashland WUI Wildfire Management, Inventory, Analysis, and Opportunities, 2002).The
environmental, social and educational benefits of this project are broad based. LRP will provide educational
work-days on site, based upon the ecological approach that has fostered broad social acceptance of fuels
reduction projects, to the benefit of individuals and communities who had previously condemned ANY sort
of 'cutting' in the forests at all. Reducing the potential for catastrophic fire provides social and environmental
benefits and protection for forestlands, wildlife, water quality, area biodiversity, and local communities.
Enclosure 3C - Project Work Form
Tasks
Time Frame
Responsible Party
COORDINATION OVER-VIEW
--Meetings with Partners / Collaborators
Within 50 Days of Project Start-Up
LOMAKATSI
Ashland Parks and Recreation Dept,
Ashland Fire and Rescue, BLM, ODF
COMMUNITY OUTREACH
-- Media and Announcement of Project
Award
-- Educational Meetings and Outreach for
Community Support
--Seek Volunteer Participation with Parks and
Rec outreach
PRESCRIPTION DEVELOPMENT
-- Identify Treatment Areas
-- Inventory Vegetation and Fuel Density,
-- Create Fuel Treatment Plan
-- Agency Collaboration on Treatment Design
-- Review and Approval of Plan
Within 70 Days of Project Start-Up
LOMAKATSI
collaborating with:
Ashland Parks and Recreation Dept,
Ashland Fire and Rescue, BLM, ODF,
community members
90– 120 days of Project Start-Up
LOMAKATSI
Collaborating with:
Ashland Parks and Recreation Dept,
Ashland Fire and Rescue, BLM, ODF
BEGIN IMPLEMENTATION PROCESS
--Permitting Processes / Prescription Review
--Community / Local Agency Meetings To
Review Project Scope
-- Organize Community Volunteer Work Days
120 days from Project Start-up
LOMAKATSI
Collaborating with:
Ashland Parks and Recreation Dept,
Ashland Fire and Rescue, BLM, ODF,
community members
PROJECT IMPLEMENTATION
--Coordinate Work Crews, Consultants,
Instructors, Inspectors
-- Begin On-the-Ground Work
--On -Site Community Demonstrations and
Workshops
120 – 240 days from Project Start-up
LOMAKATSI
PERIODIC INSPECTION AND REVIEW
--Coordinate w/ Agencies
150 – 240 days from Project Start-up
LOMAKATSI,
Ashland Parks and Recreation Dept,
Ashland Fire and Rescue, BLM, ODF
FINAL SUMMARY REPORT
Presentation of Final Report To Community
and Agencies
250 – 350 days from Project Start-up
LOMAKATSI
Enclosure 3D Project Budget
Siskiyou Mountain Park Fuels Reduction and Enhancement Project
Cost Category
Description
Personnel
Project coordinator
Assistant coordinator
Forest technician
Subtotal
Fringe Benefits
Coordinator
Technician
Subtotal
Federal
Agency
Applicant
LOMAKATSI
5,000
2,500
6,200
13,700
Partner 1
Partner 2
Total
Ashland Parks Ashland Fire /Rescue
200
1,500
1,500
200
5,000
2,700
7,700
15,400
2,625
2,170
4,795
2,625
2,170
4,795
Travel
Site visits
Crew transportation
Subtotal
150
350
500
Equipment
Chainsaws and accessories
Miscellaneous equipment
Subtotal
4,500
1,800
6,300
Supplies
Gas, oil, chains, repair
repairrepairrepair
Maintenance of tools & vehicles
Misc. Supplies
Subtotal
5,200
2,400
1,200
8,800
Contractual
Implement fuels reduction
Instructors, education, events
Subtotal
Other
Prescription/development
Administration
Subtotal
Total Costs
160,000
1,200
161,200
400
1,500
400
5,200
2,400
1,200
8,800
1,000
1,000
9,300
160,000
3,400
163,400
1,000
1,000
200
200
1,000
200
1,000
200
5,700
19,660
25,360
5,000
1,000
234,755
Project (Program) Income1
(using deductive alternative)
1
2,050
350
2,400
12,000
2,600
14,600
7,500
800
8,300
4,500
19,660
24,160
219,455
1,500
Program income is the gross revenue generated by a grant or cooperative agreement supported activity during the life of
the grant. Program income can be made by recipients from fees charged for conference or workshop attendance, from rental
fees earned from renting out real property or equipment acquired with grant or cooperative agreement funds, or from the sale
of commodities or items developed under the grant or cooperative agreement. The use of Program Income during the
project period may require prior approval by the granting agency.